{"id":36106,"date":"2013-02-20T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=36106"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:36:56","slug":"mobile-app-of-the-week-swiftkey-keyboard-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mobile-app-of-the-week-swiftkey-keyboard-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile app of the week: SwiftKey Keyboard 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36111\" title=\"SwiftKey Keyboard icon\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/swiftthumb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/>The latest version of <strong>SwiftKey Keyboard<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/swiftkey-flow-added-to-updated-android-keyboard-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released today<\/a>, is the fastest Android virtual keyboard that we&#8217;ve tried.<\/p>\n<p>The new version&#8217;s <strong>SwiftKey Flow<\/strong> technology makes this keyboard replacement even smarter than ever. The gesture-based input system means you just need to drag your finger across the position of the letters on the keyboard in order to make words &#8211; you literally don&#8217;t have to lift a finger.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, swipe-based virtual keyboards are nothing new. Apps such as <a href=\"http:\/\/swype.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Swype<\/strong><\/a> already allowed you to type in this way. I&#8217;d argue though, that SwiftKey is even quicker than Swype now. Not only is the swipe-to-type easy to master, the prediction and auto correction capabilities of SwiftKey are incredible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36114\" title=\"SwiftKey 4.0.0.105\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/swiftscreen1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/swiftscreen1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/swiftscreen1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other <strong>features of SwiftKey Keyboard 4<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for 60 languages<\/li>\n<li>Next word prediction<\/li>\n<li>Several keyboard themes to choose from<\/li>\n<li>Customizable key sizes<\/li>\n<li>Usage statistics<\/li>\n<li>How-to videos<\/li>\n<li>And lots more settings and options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t upgraded to SwiftKey 4 yet, you should do so today. If you&#8217;ve never tried it before it will blow you away and you&#8217;ll wonder how you&#8217;ve fumbled along without it all this time.<\/p>\n<p>Read my full review of <a href=\"http:\/\/swiftkey.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SwiftKey Keyboard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/swiftkey-3-tablet.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SwiftKey Tablet<\/a> if you want to read more fawning from me over this wonderful app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest version of SwiftKey Keyboard, released today, is the fastest Android virtual keyboard that we&#8217;ve tried. The new version&#8217;s SwiftKey Flow technology makes this keyboard replacement even smarter than ever. The gesture-based input system means you just need to drag your finger across the position of the letters on the keyboard in order to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/mobile-app-of-the-week-swiftkey-keyboard-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mobile app of the week: SwiftKey Keyboard 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2627],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-36106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionswiftkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333354,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36106\/revisions\/333354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36106"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=36106"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=36106"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=36106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}